At this time, the Ming army not only stopped, but also sent the musketeers who were originally protected by the spearmen in the queue to the forefront. This was obviously intended to shoot at the Qing army's ranks, so as to inflict casualties on the Qing army before hand-to-hand combat broke out. This kind of tactics is the same for Yang Minggao, and even he arranged the firecrackers at the forefront as early as the beginning of the whole formation. However, the problem is that this is a distance of about 100 steps, and the effective killing distance of the bird guns commonly installed by the Ming and Qing dynasties cannot be reached at all!

The ominous premonition accompanied the Ming army officers' series of passwords of "loading, aiming, and shooting", accompanied by the smoke of gunpowder rising from about 100 steps, and accompanied by the sound of thumping shooting falling on the glazed tiles like a torrential rain, and finally became a fact in front of his eyes.

At a glance, there were about a dozen Qing gunners in the front row. Some were wounded and lay on the ground wailing; Some, there was no movement, and from his point of view, it was difficult to see whether he was knocked unconscious or directly killed on the spot.

"This!"

At such a distance, it was possible to achieve effective killing, and Yang Minggao immediately understood everything. But before he could react, the Ming army had already begun a second round of shooting, when even dozens of Qing soldiers were killed and wounded.

The Ming army fired faster than the Qing army, which Yang Minggao had already seen. This was the case in Fujian back then, and he also sent a special work to investigate, and got some terms like "granulated gunpowder" and "fixed medicine pack".

In this regard, he was not without thoughts, but the Qing court's defense of the Han people was well known to him - the firearms of the Green Battalion soldiers were originally restricted, and the real firearms of the Qing army were the former Eight Banners of the Han Army, as well as those Dongjiang generals of the Sanshun King and the Duke of Xushun. But even they are more on artillery. For the fire guns, the Ming army generally used bird guns and three-eyed guns, and there was no difference between the Qing army, and even many of the Qing army's bird guns and three-eyed guns were captured from the Ming army.

The green battalion soldiers, not to mention that the weapon technology has been innovated, and the Qing court is very stuck in the training and medication, which is almost negligible. And these three melons and two dates are inevitably embezzled by officers and non-commissioned officers, it is enough to be able to fire and shoot on the battlefield, and the rest is superfluous even if you think about it.

Today, the redundant gave Yang Minggao a blow to the head. At this distance, even if the bird gun is fired, it is only used to hear. And the foot bow, at this distance, is already the end of the strong crossbow. On the contrary, it was the new type of firearm of the Ming army, round after round of shooting, almost wantonly killing and bullying the opponent without interference. After such a passive beating, I am afraid that after a while, I am afraid that they will collapse first without the Ming army launching an attack.

"The whole army presses up!"

After being beaten but unable to fight back, the Qing army, which was about to be unbearable, only waited for Yang Minggao's handsome banner to show signs of forward pressure and immediately took action. At the same time as the general flag, the thousand general flag, and the general flag, the entire battle formation of the Qing army also moved, like a giant beast that had just been whipped, and pounced on the opponent who was about 100 paces away.

According to the calculations of Yang Minggao's officers, the proportion of firearms in the first town was indeed higher than that of the Qing army, but after all, they had twice the advantage of troops, as long as they entered the effective killing distance, their infantry bows and bird guns could start to shoot at the Ming army. Of course, ending the dilemma of being passively beaten was not the goal, the purpose was to return to the normal rhythm and force the Ming army to give up the range advantage and fight to the death with them in a dignified manner.

In the face of the continuous firing of the Ming army, the battle formation of the Qing army continued to advance. A distance of a hundred paces is very fast to enter the range of the infantry bow, and even if it is within the range of the bird's gun, it will not be able to take ten or twenty steps more. Soon, the Qing army entered the effective killing distance of the bird, and the Qing army, which had been beaten for a long time, viciously manipulated the bird's gun under the upward fire that had already begun to be fired by the bow, ready to let the Ming army take a good look at what they were not burning sticks in their hands.

It's a pity that the Ming army doesn't seem to intend to give them a chance to prove it. With the beginning of the loading of the Qing army's bird guns, the Ming army suddenly changed its formation, and the firecrackers who were originally in the front row put away their firearms and turned sideways, and then the spearmen standing behind them came out of the crowd and marched towards the Qing army again in a neat queue.

At this time, there were only about sixty steps left, because farther away, even if the bird could hit someone, it would be difficult to cause damage. The poor range made the Qing army lose more than 100 soldiers for no reason, and the minor injuries were not counted.

Yang Minggao estimated the distance, according to the speed of the Ming army's march just now, it should be enough for his bird gunners to complete a shot, and then change to pikemen and sword and shield soldiers to go up to hand-to-hand combat. However, it was this abominable again, however, the first town immediately refreshed his perception of the Ming army again, and within his sight, the spearmen of the Ming army who came out of the crowd actually lined up in a neat line, holding spears, and began to walk quickly. Moreover, it is going faster and faster!

"This!"

According to his experience, the average infantry charge is about thirty paces. At this point, the attacking side will let the sword and shield men take the lead and throw javelins, while the pikemen will charge under the cover of javelins and rifles. For so many years, any army he has ever seen has done this, whether it is the Qing army, the Ming army, or the Chuang army, even the Eight Banners Army cannot get out of this category. Because, thirty steps have entered the range of the javelin, and the charge can compress the wave of the opponent's throw, reduce your own casualties, and can also use the javelin and the bow to suppress the opponent. Moreover, the distance of thirty paces, at this distance, the whole team can ensure a relatively complete formation when engaged, which is very important on the battlefield.

However, the Ming army had already begun to charge at about sixty paces, and the speed was getting faster and faster, almost trotting. What's even more amazing is that even when they trot, each soldier seems to be trying their best to maintain the integrity of the formation, and it is even possible that they are all running at the same frequency and at the same distance, which he has never seen even in the Eight Banners Army.

The distance between the two armies is rapidly compressing, and at this speed, even if Yang Minggao doesn't use any acceleration calculation formula at all, he can see it just by relying on this pair of tricks, even if his bird gunner completes a shot, it will be skewered into meat skewers by the spearmen rushing up by the Ming army within a breath or two. And these birdmen will even disrupt the formation of pikemen and sword and shield soldiers in the back.

"The order is given, the bird gunners retreat to the back row, and the sword and shield soldiers are ready to fight."

Earlier, according to the return of the Tanma, Yang Minggao had realized that his pikemen had been brought for nothing—the spears of the Ming army were five feet long, in other words, four meters long; However, the willow leaf gun of the Qing army was less than two and a half meters long. This obviously required one Qing soldier to hold the calf of another Qing soldier horizontally, and the Qing soldier who was being held straightened horizontally and held the tail end of the willow leaf spear in order to barely stab the opponent at the same time as the Ming spearman stabbed the Qing army holding him. Such a difficult action has to be done by thousands of people like a group exercise, and it is estimated that it will not be possible until the Qing Dynasty conquers India and establishes the Eight Banners of India. At present, the Green Battalion soldiers, the bottom of the Manchu military system, cannot do what the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners can't do, and it is inhumane to expect them to do it.

Although the sword and shield are shorter, at least they have defensive capabilities, which are better than the willow leaf spear that can't fight back after being beaten. Moreover, the sword and shield soldiers under his command are all elites used to break the formation, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of pikemen.

As a result, the military order was like a mountain, and the birds who did not fire a shot retreated to the rear of the battle aggrievedly. And those sword and shield soldiers who had just come up immediately discovered that the Ming army had run into the range of the javelin, and hurriedly took off the javelin from behind and threw it at the Ming army.

Javelin projection, the Qing army, which had been beaten for half a day, finally caused some casualties to the Ming army. It's rare, but there's a world of difference between having and not having. This undoubtedly encouraged the Qing army. It's a pity that when the sword and shield soldiers were about to draw the second javelin, they were surprised to see that the Ming army's charging rhythm was not interrupted at all, and they had no chance to shoot the second javelin at all.

"Kill!"

Drawing swords and holding shields, the defensive formation instantly facilitated the impact of the Ming army and collided together. The shout resounded on the battlefield in an instant as the aftermath of the spear's direct stab, and the Ming army's spear was too long, and the tactical action would inevitably be affected, so there was only the move of the straight stab. It took more than two years of training to make the Ming army almost like a part of their body when they stabbed directly, and accurately stabbed at the place where they needed to stab.

Immediately afterwards, in the midst of the shouts and killings, the screams were mixed in. Casualties were inevitable in the first engagement, but under normal circumstances, the sword and shield men could follow the shaft of the spear after blocking a direct stab from the Ming army, and the spearmen would never be as fast as the sword and shield soldiers even if they managed to retract the spear. And the spearmen who can't pierce the sword and shield soldiers in front of them are nothing more than a flock of sheep. At this point, it is not even as good as the lancet, at least the lance can also fight in close combat, while the spear can only be watched dry.

This is undoubtedly his only chance. At this moment, Yang Minggao stared intently at the front line of the engagement, and at the same time as the casualties at the first moment, some experienced Qing sabers and shield soldiers flashed and moved, and they dodged the dense direct stabbing of the Ming army and bullied in. It was a very good start, but it came to an abrupt end when a third spear was stabbed between the two Ming spearmen.

Between the two spears, it was difficult for the Qing army's sword and shield soldiers to have room to move around, and in the face of the third spear stabbing from the back row, they could often only rely on the shield to resist. It's just that the simple hard resistance is actually just delaying the time to be killed in the formation, the spearmen in the first row can stab directly, and the spearmen in the second row can be selectively assassinated, and the sword and shield soldiers who can bully themselves are only a few horns, once they enter the attack range of the spearmen in the second row, they are no longer just a direction.

Yang Minggao watched as a veteran blocked the spear stabbed from the front, but almost instantaneously was pierced in the lower abdomen by another spear on his right side. Immediately afterward, the spear that had just been blocked stabbed again, directly in the chest. When he pulled it out again, he fell to the ground like a tattered burden.

"It turns out that Suke Saha was consumed by Chen Kai to the Iron Man Army."

It wasn't just Yang Minggao who understood all this, the deputy general was stunned to watch those warriors who destroyed the formation being easily stabbed to death by spears in front of the formation, the muscles of his cheeks twitched the corners of his mouth twice, and he even came to his big handsome, lowered his voice and said: "Big handsome, if you can't win, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, let's withdraw the army first." ”

The withdrawal of troops before the battle, separated by two miles and already in a mess, are completely two situations. The former, with distance and stratagem, still have a chance; And the latter, rather than withdrawing the army, is more straightforward than abandoning the army and absconding.

The cronies of the martial arts were very unoptimistic about this battle from the beginning, and always persuaded him to avoid confrontation, but after being refused, he still chose to follow him and fight against him together. At this moment, seeing that he really can't win, he is still trying to persuade each other, which can be called a drain. However, at this moment, Yang Minggao just shook his head, pointed to the source of the shouting and killing sound in the distance, and said with a wry smile: "It's not that you can't win, it's that you've already lost." ”

Following the direction pointed by Yang Minggao, with several rounds of stabbing by the Ming army, the sword and shield soldiers in the first row of the Qing army had been swept away. At this time, the offensive of the Ming army was still surging wave after wave like a tide. Until the sword and shield soldiers in the second row of the left flank of the Qing army were the first to be completely penetrated, first retreated, and then fled with their backs to the Ming army. One of these soon spread, like pebbles thrown into a quiet pond, and the ripples it stirred up quickly turned into a monstrous wave.

"Defeated! Defeated! ”

The monstrous waves spread rapidly from the left flank, and the Ming army took advantage of the situation to follow up, which undoubtedly accelerated this process. Yang Minggao doesn't know how many times he has seen the rout of the army in his life, there are his enemies, and there are also the army he is in, but this time, he no longer has any desire to survive, not even a star.

"You're still young, let's go."

"Handsome ......"

"Even if I am lucky enough to escape from Chen Kai's clutches, I can't escape the laws of the imperial court." In the cry of defeat, Yang Minggao smiled miserably: "In the future, if you still remember the benefits of Ben Shuai, take care of Ben Shuai's wife and children." ”

"Dashuai!"

The last words of his life were like weeping blood, and the adjutant general's tears had already gushed out when he heard the words. It's just that before he could say anything more, Yang Minggao had already urged him to escape. He had no choice but to jump off the war horse, kowtow three times on the ground, and then turn over and ride away with his soldiers and family members.

The rout was like a torrent, and even the Overseers behind the battle were integrated into it. Yang Minggao looked at all this, and his heart was much more settled. At least, that's a result, isn't it?

In the surging tide, Yang Minggao's handsome banner, as well as the commanders, officers, personal soldiers, and family members under the marshal's banner, quickly turned into one of the flat boats, undulating in the waves. Gradually, the boat shattered into pieces of tattered wood in the ocean and sank into the sea. It wasn't until the last moment when Shuai Qi fell, the Qing army marshal, who had always held Shuai Qi and had almost been stabbed into a sieve, looked at the dense spears in front of him, and let out a final sigh.

"Could it be that I, the governor of a province, don't even have the qualifications to see the Iron Man Army and the Grenadier on the battlefield?"

………………

A few days later, Chen Kai was already outside the city of Jianchang Mansion, standing on a hill in the distance and looking at the cowering of the Qing army at the head of the city.

According to the plan, the first town and the right cooperation were the vanguard to attack Guangchang County, and at the same time create signs that the Ming army had swept along the Jianchang River. At the same time, these two troops and horses sneaked into Xincheng County and began to sweep the pass between Jiangxi and Fujian, in order to release Wang Xiuqi's Fujian Ming army from the dangerous pass, and join forces with the Guangdong and Jiangxi governors to form a new Ming army heavy army group.

However, sneaking through the mountains, large-scale soldiers and horses could not cover their tracks, not to mention, more importantly, the grain and grass were unsustainable, so Chen Kai only dispatched these two. And he led the 7,000 soldiers of the Second Town, the Third Town, and the Left Association to appear in Guangchang County again in the next few days, only surrounding but not fighting. Until the appointed time, I will penetrate the Jianchang River in one go.

Since ancient times, there has been a risk of breaking the enemy army by dividing the army. Chen Kai was not worried, because he already knew the deployment of the Qing army in Jianchang Mansion. Secondly, no matter which unit it is, it is not an opponent of the local Qing army by virtue of its combat effectiveness alone. Even if there is some unexpected situation, it only takes a few days of hard work for the two armies to complete the convergence, and it is still no problem to protect yourself in these days.

After a while, the unexpected situation did occur. First of all, Wang Han's vanguard unexpectedly encountered the Fujian Green Battalion that assisted in the defense, which undoubtedly gave early warning to the Jiangxi Green Battalion in Jianchang Prefecture and the Fujian Green Battalion in Xincheng County. Subsequently, the plan of sneaking was carried out as usual, and Yang Minggao, who reacted, also mobilized a large army to relieve the siege of Desheng Pass. These unexpected circumstances inevitably posed a certain risk to the actions of the Ming army, but in the final analysis, it still fell to the field battle. And in the wild wave battle, Chen Kai's supervisor really didn't fear anyone!

At this time, Yang Minggao was defeated and killed, and the first town chased the rout and took Xincheng County. Wang Han's right association won the Desheng Pass at the same time as Lin Dezhong defeated Yang Minggao, and then began to sweep this series of passes. I just received the news that under the attack of Wang Han and Wang Xiuqi on both sides, the pass has been owned by the Ming army, Wang Xiuqi's army is on the way to join Chen Kai, and the grain road in Fujian has also been opened, and even with the grain road along the south road of the Jianchang River, the supply of this army can also be guaranteed. The rest is how to further expand the results.

"Boss of the army, this is the military information that Lin Shuai just sent."

The staff handed over the letter, and Chen Kai hastily read it, and the progress of the First Town and the Right Association was also within his expectations, and the war in Jianchang Mansion could soon be declared over. But then, as the list of captured prisoners at the end was presented in front of his eyes, he was silent for a moment, and then smiled and flicked the letterhead.

"Let Lin Shuai suspend the offensive against Luxi County. In addition, the military affairs here are entrusted to Cai Zongbing and Ma Zongbing, and this official is going to Xincheng County to talk about life and ideals with this strange goods. ”